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Word: kikusaburo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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...traitorous Mitsui!" As a result no successor to Dr. Dan, no Mitsui candidate for assassination, has been appointed. His work is now done by a "Council of Three" Mitsui minions (who hate, fear and dodge photographers) : domineering, onetime newspaperman Seihin Ikeda; softspoken, old-fogyish Nagabumi Ariga; diplomatic, democratic Kikusaburo Fukui. It was on this Council's advice that the Senior Baron last week signed away 30,000,000 yen,† created by a squiggle of his august pen a Mitsui Foundation "to relieve distress among farmers and fishermen." Though Tokyo editors hailed this "largest private benefaction in the history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Greatest Shakedown | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

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